best solution for usb storage mounting ?

nephish · 2005-10-19 23:02:23

Hey there
i installed arch on my wifes computer, keeping it xfce4 for right now to conserve resources. my daughter has a usb camera that i can mount via fstab (sometimes) and mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 yadda yadda.
is there a way i can simplify this so that it automounts ala ubuntu style ?
i have looked at susbmount and automount . what would be the best way to go here?

iBertus · 2005-10-19 23:16:47

IIRC, ivman can do what you're talking about and more. Also, GNOME has it's own utility to do automounting of devices. Another option might be to setup mounting shortcuts buttons somewhere so that you can do a 1-click mount/unmount.

nephish · 2005-10-19 23:31:35

cool, does sda1 stay at a permission that will allow users to mount / unmount ?

T-Dawg · 2005-10-19 23:48:08

nephish wrote:

cool, does sda1 stay at a permission that will allow users to mount / unmount ?

With ivman? Yes, I believe so, although I would try to stay away from it. In the past I've experienced corruption problems. I'm sure its fixed now but personally, I feel safer not using it all.
I run dbus and hal (added in that order to daemons() array in rc.conf) to dynamically sync the fstab with the proper entries once something is plugged in and xfce4-mount-plugin to manually mount the device. It sits in the task bar and you can mount/umount each device by clicking on it and then clicking on the corresponding device icon. Its in aur.

nephish · 2005-10-20 00:22:50

sounds great. where can i get the xfce4-mount-plugin ? It doesnt seem to come with toys. or part of my pacman (current & extra)

nephish · 2005-10-20 00:23:39

oh, sorry. missed the last part. its in aur.
nevermind

keevn7 · 2005-10-20 01:24:03

ivman works fine. I use it and have no problems. I have never gotten corruption with ivman in the past either.

JGC · 2005-10-20 06:21:41

hal + dbus and any of the automounters that use HAL: gnome, KDE or ivman. It's really simple, plugin a USB device and it gets added to fstab automatically.

nephish · 2005-10-20 07:52:51

doing really well now.
thanks, gents

lanrat · 2005-10-20 07:59:49

I'm using pure udev rules to automount sd* devices (under both /mnt and /media, links are created dynamically - it's easy to extend it to do other things too if you need them. no need for any fstab entries.) + a tiny application called auto-eject-cdrom to automount cd/dvd (+1 line in fstab).
I've posted working rules and pkgbuild on the main arch mailing list some time ago if you're interested.

JGC · 2005-10-20 15:52:46

Problem with udev rules is that you can go make new ones on every udev release because the developers don't really make compatible changes every time

lanrat · 2005-10-20 18:55:44

Same thing about every gcc/ivman/hal/etc. upgrade too :-)
Seriously, udev rules are quite stable now. I didn't have any problems for a long time. It's just another way to do the same.

Martillo1 · 2005-10-20 19:23:13

I am using pmount in a script. No probs.

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